After giving it some further thought, I'm wondering if I want to, say dEhiN calls it, "bow out" of the group.

I certainly don't want to do more than I can handle, and at this present moment, I think I'd like to devote more time to Old English (and especially my major ones!). I would like to revisit this language (and study group) eventually though.

Because of all the languages you've joined/made study groups for, it seems like the one that's the least connected to both your heritage and your research interests. I had no idea you liked Turkmen so much. I'm still wondering why specifically Turkmen.

księżycowy wrote:Sure other Turkic languages are even more underdog-ish, but are they accessible to me?

Uhh, yeah.

We're both sharing a folder with materials for Bashkir, Chagatay, Chuvash, Crimean Tatar, Karachay, Kazakh, Khakas, Kyrgyz, Middle Turkic, Old Turkic, Ottoman Turkish, (Volga) Tatar, Tuvan, Uyghur, Uzbek, Western Yugur, and Yakut, and that's only counting the materials that are available in English! (There's even more if you include the ones in Russian).

vijayjohn wrote:Hmm...now I wonder, how come the characters from Wikipedia show up but not necessarily the ones from this keyboard?

Yeah, I wondered that myself. It seems to only be the macron or the letters with the macron over them.

vijayjohn wrote:It's [t.mənt.rəm.ən.keː.mɛ]. EDIT: Or maybe the last vowel is [ə]. I'm not sure.

Oh, so the macron over the consonant indicates a schwa preceding the consonant? As for the last letter, I was going to write that I thought ei was only pronounced [ɛ] in Sahidic Coptic, but I just double checked and it could be that or [ə].

By the way, what's the Greco-Bohairic pronunciation column in the Wikipedia article table?